Handloom
De-skilling in Handloom Sector A study of the handloom Weavers of Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh in India
By: TANUSREE SHAW, ARNAB DAS – This paper examines the effect of capitalist control and technological changes in the handloom industry of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The Karl Marx and Harry Braverman’s concept of deskilling is one of the consequences of the capitalistic control and technological changes and it studied theoretically and empirically in the…

